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Hedgehog in the Fog

We had a great time tonight celebrating the New Year with my counterpart Olha, Emma’s director (Olha’s father), and their family.  New Year in Ukraine is roughly equivalent to our Christmas – it’s a big family holiday with lots of traditions.  So we were honored to be invited to prazdnovat (праздновать) with some of our favorite Ukrainians.

Now, as a New Year’s gift, I give you this wonderful multfilm (cartoon) classic called Yozhik v Tumanne (Ёжик в тумане) or Hedgehog in the Fog.  Ukrainians and Russians seem to love hedgehogs.  Make sure you click the second button from the bottom right and watch it fullscreen to immerse yourself in the fog with the yozhik.  Happy New Year!

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Merry Christmas!

Drinking hot berry punch and hot chocolate to stay warm at the Christmas market.

We’re definitely having a nice time here in Vienna.  We’ve walked around lots of Christmas markets, drunk hot mulled wine, eaten roasted chestnuts, thrown snowballs at statues of random Hofburgs, and gorged ourselves on good food and beer.  Tonight and tomorrow we plan on going to all the Christmas masses we can take, including Christmas morning mass at the Imperial Palace Chapel with the Vienna Boys Choir.  We’re hoping to overdose on the real Christmas spirit, along with some great music.

But, really, we are just trying to distract ourselves from how much we miss our family and friends back home.  We hope you have a warm and Merry Christmas!  We love you!

-Alex and Emma

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Alex eating his first-ever freshly roasted chestnuts.

Emma taunts the crazy tufted-eared squirrels in the Schonbrunn Palace gardens.